The only thing that stops the dust is the rain. It’s a sweet reprieve, but there is no middle ground. The land is either as dry as the Betty Ford clinic, or as wet as the ocean floor. Everything can be seen from the ridge overlooking Armadillo as John Marston gently bounces along atop...

Would all of that jazz get along? Total that's $585 before rebates (and pretty much all of them have rebates). I like the Antec case and I'll get a SSD, 8GB of RAM,and the peripherals later on (after Christmas) when the rebates come back and I'm busy slinging crawfish at work. I'm pretty sure the Windows 7 came with this current PC, but doesn't Microsoft do a student discount on their OS's from time to time?

That CPU and mobo wouldn't work together. If you're decided on the 3570k, when searching for a motherboard you need to make sure it's a LGA 1155 socket type....Basically, anything that says Z77 on it will work.

Also, if I CrossFire that, will it effectively work better or worse with my Radeon HD 6770 if my motherboard makes them both run at 4x?

I don't think you would be able to Cossfire this card with your 6770 (if that's what you meant, if not ignore the rest of the post), as they are from a different family/architecture. Generally if the cards are the same series and range, you'll be able to Crossfire them. E.g 79xx series, so 7970 and 7950 will work, 78xx series 7870 and 7850 will work, but work to the speed of the slower card.

It gets a bit more complicated lower down the range with 77xx and lower series as normally these are just rebranded from the previous series.

Also, if I CrossFire that, will it effectively work better or worse with my Radeon HD 6770 if my motherboard makes them both run at 4x?

$150 for a card that can be run on a 300w power supply and will continue to max out games throughout 2013 and likely 2014?
Yes, it's a very, very good deal.

It won't work crossfire with the 6770.
No point having a faster/slower card than what you already have with crossfire anyway, as the run at the same speed as the lowest one in any crossfire setup. So if you have a single HD7850 and 3x HD7870, they'll all run the 7850 speeds._________________http://i.imgur.com/uXwrTYA.jpg
Savage

PS. The 3570K is about to be an Amazon lightning deal here in about 5 minutes...

Damn, 100% claimed, AND the waitlist is full. I bought one from Newegg, it comes with a $20 gift card so at least there's that. Also picked up a HD7850, that comes with a $20 mail-in rebate. I'm selling AC3 and Sleeping Dogs to Amazon so I should be getting about $62 worth of Amazon gift cards, I'll use them for some of the other components.

To be fair the genuine check update was originally set to download by default but there was a outcry against it by people because it fucked up genuine copies as well. Then there was word of a class action lawsuit calling it malware.

In the end Microsoft decided it was better to stay out of courts._________________“I do like metaphorical heroin and my heroin dealer. EA”

Is this motherboard a good deal? Is it $30 cheaper than this one (after rebate) because it's smaller or because it's comparatively a P.O.S? If it appears sound to you guys, would it be compatible with the 3570K I bought? It comes with free memory too.